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MAKKAH: Employees man their terminals at the control room for traffic and crowd management for pilgrims at the General Transport Centre at the Royal Commission for Makkah and Holy Sites on June 3, 2025. - AFP

Pilgrims in Mina as hajj begins

MAKKAH: More than a million pilgrims joined Islam’s most important rite as the hajj kicked off on Wednesday. With temperatures expected to top 40 degrees Celsius, robed pilgrims slowly circled the Kaaba — the black cube at the heart of Makkah’...

BERLIN: Member of parliament Cansin Koektuerk is confronted by a parliament worker for wearing a T-shirt reading 'Palestine' during a plenary session of the Bundestag on June 4, 2025. - AFP

Irish, Swiss univs cut Zionist links, Norway, Germany keep ties

DUBLIN/OSLO/BERLIN: Ireland’s prestigious Trinity College Dublin said on Wednesday that it would cut all links with the Zionist entity in protest at “ongoing violations of international and humanitarian law”. The university’s board informed ...

GAZA: A boy kisses the body of a child killed in overnight Zionist bombardment as it is cradled by a woman with other mourners at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on June 4, 2025. - AFP

US-backed group suspends Gaza aid operations

GAZA: A US- and Zionist-backed group operating aid sites in Gaza shut its facilities on Wednesday, as the Zionist army warned that roads leading to distribution centers were “considered combat zones”. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s move fo...

MAKKAH: Worshippers pray around the Kaaba at the Grand Mosque in this holy city on June 2, 2025 ahead of the hajj. - AFP

Pilgrims urged to stay in tents on Arafat Day

MAKKAH: Saudi authorities have asked pilgrims performing the hajj to remain in their tents for several hours during the high point of this week’s pilgrimage, citing high temperatures. According to a report in Saudi media, Hajj Minister Tawfiq Al-R...

GAZA: A Palestinian man rushes a girl injured in Zionist strikes on displacement tents in Khan Yunis at Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip on June 3, 2025. - AFP

Outrage over more Zionist carnage as Gazans seek food

GAZA: Rescuers said the Zionist military killed at least 27 people near a US-backed aid center in Gaza on Tuesday, with the army reporting it had fired on “suspects who advanced toward the troops”. United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Tuesda...

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TEHRAN: This handout photo released by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) official Sepah News Telegram channel on June 13, 2025 shows smoke billowing from a site reportedly targeted by an Israeli strike in the Iranian capital Tehran early in the morning. - AFP

Israel launches strikes on Iran

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This frame grab from a video by @ashlovetea on June 12, 2025 made available on the Eurovision Social Newswire (ESN) platform via AFPTV shows a plume of smoke rising after Air India flight 171 crashed near the airport in Ahmedabad. --AFP

Air India plane with 242 on board crashes at India's Ahmedabad airport

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KUWAIT: Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah chairs Wednesday's Cabinet meeting. — KUNA

Kuwait moves to scrap housing law critics say created unequal access

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Kuwaiti oil tanker Al-Dasma rescues a boat of refugees in the Mediterranean Sea. — KUNA

Kuwaiti oil tanker rescues 40 refugees in the Mediterranean

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Kuwait’s hit smashburger brand HBR expands globally with London launch